Into the wake of the 2012 Creative Time Summit, held almost exactly one year ago, was cast An Open Letter to Critics Writing About Political Art. According to its co-writers Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe, the letter’s addressees were shirking…
Browsing: Volume 2 : Issue #12
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WORK OUT at deCordova: considering politics and individual agency
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Lucy Kim: All is not what it seems
Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of Lucy Kim—the work and the woman—so I was stoked to be asked to write this essay and to have this chance to rave about what I love about her work and what…
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Memory and The Void: The Work of Memorials as Expressed Through Emptiness
Memory and the built environment are inextricably linked, and most potently so in places where historic events—and the need to remember them—collide. The memorial, the time tested place-marker for moments of significance, is a particularly challenging form for architects and…
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The Phoenix and the Shaker Chair: A Comparison between Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project and Chen Zhen’s The Opening of a Closed Center
“In my opinion, the best way for the West to see Asia is to study the individual. Each one is totally different from any other.” —Chen Zhen1 This summer, thanks to Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project at MASS MoCA (on view…